Property Market: First Person

Everybody's claiming poverty nowadays, which is annoying for those of us who were there years ago, leading the fashion. Suddenly we don't look so cutting edge in our charity-shop outfits, and our moving tales of hardship are drowned out in the general chorus.

Still, dinner-party conversations are more interesting now, as dramatic tales of real strife and suffering begin to replace the litany of how much everybody's property has increased in value since the last dinner party… or worse, how much everybody's buy-to-let property portfolio has increased.

Nothing is as boring as a buy-to-let property portfolio, unless you happen to be the person counting the rents. Which I'm not. This is because of the great split that now divides the middle class. On one side you have the bumper bonus boys who lark about in the city all day shouting at BlackBerrys, and on their way home buy a £1 million diamond-encrusted door handle – just because they can. On the other side are the hard-up professionals who do the vital and constructive jobs that keep the country running: the teachers, civil servants, health workers, and of course, the writers.

 

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